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War, Christmas and Pentecost
Categories: Viewpoints“We’re at war.” These were the words of French President Francois Hollande after the Paris attacks. This Friday the 13th will be remembered like 9/11. Is war the new reality?…
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Seeking asylum for freedom and justice
Categories: Viewpoints“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual…
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MC Canada national office lays off five
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Church Canada laid off five staff members on Nov. 28, as part of the cost-saving restructuring efforts that fall under the banner of the Future Directions Task Force. While…
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Between a rock and a hard place
Categories: UncategorizedLeaders at Mennonite Church Eastern Canada feel they are caught between a rock and a hard place, as they have had to deal with a number of boundary crossings by…
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MC Manitoba envisions new future for camps
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Church Manitoba has a new vision for its camping ministry, one that involves relinquishing two of its camps and significantly improving the third. “The question was, how do we…
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Mennonite Disaster Service steps in
Categories: UncategorizedThe first three times their house flooded, John and Mary Webb managed to make repairs. But in 2011, after the Red River filled it with water for the fourth time,…
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Completion of MDS work in High River celebrated
Categories: UncategorizedSandra and Harold Friesen of Calgary and Linda and Jim Dyck of Pincher Creek spent the last two years volunteering as project coordinators for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) work in…
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Mennonites ‘wage peace’ on Remembrance Day
Categories: UncategorizedA Mennonite church is not a typical venue for a Remembrance Day service, but on Nov. 11, 2015, members of several Mennonite Church Saskatchewan congregations came together at Osler Mennonite…
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‘An ample opportunity to try something new’
Categories: ArtbeatOne could say that, in a musical sense, 1955 was the best of times and the worst of times when compared to today. From a Swiss-South German Mennonite perspective, we…
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Any price for victory
Categories: ArtbeatDirected by Francis Lawrence. Screenwriters: Peter Craig and Danny Strong. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. A Color Force/Lionsgate release, 2015. Rated PG (violence, frightening scenes). Early in the fourth and…
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Contemplative journal an expression of creative process
Categories: ArtbeatApril Yamasaki and Lois Siemens have collaborated across the miles on a second creative project. In 2014, the women, who are pastors of Mennonite Church Canada congregations in British Columbia…
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Why I go see Santa every year
Categories: UncategorizedAs Christmas approaches, one of the things I’m most looking forward to is heading to a local mall with my siblings so we can have our picture taken with Santa.…
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All members of one family
Categories: UncategorizedOver a period of seven years, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) heard more than 6,000 survivors of residential schools tell their painful stories of injustice and abuse.…
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‘Africa is for babies’
Categories: Web First“Africa is for babies.” That’s what Andrew and Karen Suderman, our Mennonite Church Canada colleagues in South Africa, assured us before we first left for Botswana in 2013. As newlyweds…
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Churches of all stripes call for freedom of religion
Categories: Web FirstRepresentatives of every stream of global Christianity met in Tirana, Albania, Nov. 1 to 5, 2015, for a consultation on Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together, convened by the Global…
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Hearing God in indigenous voices
Categories: Web First“If you want to love someone, you need to know their story; if you want to know someone, you need to learn their story,” Steve Heinrichs, Mennonite Church Canada’s director…
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Nigerian church leaders rely on the Bible and prayer
Categories: Web FirstWhen Obed and Phena Dashan told students and faculty at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) how they feel God’s love surrounding them in spite of facing death every day in…
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MC Canada national office lays off five
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada laid off five staff members on Nov. 28, 2015, as part of the cost-saving restructuring efforts that fall under the banner of the Future Directions Task Force.…
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MC Canada accelerates proposed changes
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada has begun to implement changes proposed by the Future Directions Task Force (FDTF) insofar as foresight allows, as a result of pressing financial necessity. Although the recommendations…
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Old Order Mennonite groups in Ontario are growing
Categories: Web FirstThere has been remarkable growth in the number of Old Order Mennonite meetinghouses in Ontario in the last 50 years. They have been spreading farther afield, especially in the last…
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